Please tag releases about gtk-theme HOT 4 CLOSED

Every commit to the master branch is essentially a release for Pop!_OS. (They are not actually released in Pop!_OS until they're included in a PR within https://github.com/pop-os/repo-release, but updates are only withheld there for more than a few days in special circumstances.)

The most recent "stable release" on GitHub is currently from late 2020 and the most recent "pre-release" on GitHub is currently from 2021, so it probably wouldn't hurt to tag a new one, even if it's arbitrary. While there is a -git AUR package that would more closely match the Pop!_OS development style, it looks like Arch has a binary package in their community repo that's currently what's out-of-date since it only follows GitHub releases.

I wonder if it would be possible for the Arch maintainer for this package to use the version number in the repo-release repository instead of the one in the GitHub tags, since that's what we use for Pop!_OS releases. (The current version number would be 5.5.1~1659710972~22.04~7ba5da8; the part after the first tilde is a timestamp, so it goes up with each release.)

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I tried making a tag myself, but I don't seem to have the proper permissions. @isantop can probably do it. (I'm also not sure why we started putting v at the front of the tag names only at version 5.3.1, but I was going to match the most recent tag with the letter.)

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I tagged the most current release as v5.5.1.

The note Jacob brought up about releases is valid; every commit to master in this repository is a new version built and distributed to users.

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@jacobgkau I am said arch maintainer!

Thanks for the tag and explanation. Deriving the version from another repository will be a bit too convoluted compared to our usual workflow. Also arch tends to prefer packaging tags instead of arbitrary commits whenever possible, but exceptions can be made, and I have certainly done so already. In both cases though our package versions are derived from git describe --tags, usually in the form of <latest_tag>.r<commits_since_tag>.<commit_hash> when commits are targeted, so we'd need up to date tags either way.

I will start packaging commits since they are considered stable enough, but if that's not too much trouble it would be great if you could keep tagging every new version from now on. If not I'll devise an appropriate version scheme that doesn't break our vercmp. Thanks!

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